OpenAI API
OpenAI
GPT models for reasoning, vision and tool calling; often used for task planning and language-conditioned control.
39 tools for building robots with AI — the big providers and the smaller open-source projects worth knowing. Links go to each project's official site or repository.
OpenAI
GPT models for reasoning, vision and tool calling; often used for task planning and language-conditioned control.
Anthropic
Claude models with long context and tool use, useful for agentic robot planning and code generation.
Multimodal models with native video and image understanding; Gemini Robotics builds on this family.
Mistral AI
European LLM provider; several models also ship as open weights you can run on-robot.
Groq
Very low-latency inference for open models, handy when a robot loop can't wait on slow responses.
Together
Hosted inference and fine-tuning for many open-weight models.
Replicate
Run community-published models (vision, segmentation, depth) through a simple API.
Hugging Face
Call thousands of Hub models, including robotics policies, without hosting them yourself.
Ollama
Run LLMs and VLMs locally on a workstation or Jetson with an OpenAI-style API.
Hugging Face
PyTorch library and dataset format for imitation learning on real robots (ACT, Diffusion Policy, pi0).
Stanford / TRI
7B open vision-language-action model and fine-tuning code trained on Open X-Embodiment.
UC Berkeley
Generalist transformer policy, small enough to fine-tune on a single GPU.
Physical Intelligence
Open release of the pi0 / pi0-FAST flow-matching VLA models with training code.
Columbia / TRI
Reference implementation of visuomotor policies trained as diffusion models.
Stanford / NVIDIA
Framework and benchmark for learning from human demonstrations.
DLR-RM
Reliable PyTorch implementations of RL algorithms (PPO, SAC, TD3).
Toni-SM
Modular RL library with first-class support for Isaac Lab massively parallel envs.
ETH Zurich RSL
Fast GPU PPO used for legged locomotion training.
NVIDIA
GPU-parallel robot learning framework on Isaac Sim.
Google DeepMind
Fast, accurate physics engine; MJX runs it on GPU/TPU via JAX.
Genesis Embodied AI
Python-native multi-physics simulator aimed at very fast robot learning.
UC San Diego (Hillbot)
GPU-parallel manipulation benchmark with rendering for vision policies.
Erwin Coumans
Lightweight, easy-to-install physics sim; good for prototyping.
Open Robotics
ROS-integrated simulator for full robot systems and sensors.
UT Austin
Large-scale simulated kitchens for household manipulation tasks.
Meta
Promptable image and video segmentation.
IDEA Research
Open-vocabulary object detection from text prompts.
Ultralytics
Real-time detection, segmentation and pose that runs on edge devices.
HKU / TikTok
Monocular depth estimation from a single RGB camera.
NVIDIA
6D pose estimation and tracking of novel objects.
Intel ISL
Point cloud and 3D data processing library.
Open Robotics
Standard robot software framework for messaging, drivers and tooling.
PickNik
Motion planning, kinematics and collision checking for arms.
dora-rs
Low-latency dataflow middleware designed for AI-driven robots.
LAAS-CNRS / INRIA
Fast rigid-body dynamics and kinematics.
Rerun
Log and visualize multimodal robot data (images, point clouds, poses) over time.
Foxglove
Visualization and data management for ROS bags and MCAP recordings.
Episode dataset format behind Open X-Embodiment.
W&B
Experiment tracking and model evaluation for training runs.